Film Review: Wonder Woman

What a joy it is to be able to go into a theater and root for a hero! The DC extended universe, even with my enjoyment of Man of Steel, has been bereft of heroes with strong journeys, fully formed character, and decent screenplays. Leave it to the woman to come clean up the mess,

Film Review: Alien: Covenant

Someone needs to sit Ridley Scott down in a comfortable room and tell him that it might be time to let well enough alone. His newest outing in the Alien franchise, Alien: Covenant, can lay claim to not being as entirely soul sucking and awful as its predecessor, Prometheus. However, beyond that backhanded compliment, there

Colossal, or How Movies Can Move Past Expectations

Colossal is a movie many people told me not to read much about. When I heard about it playing film festivals all I knew was that Anne Hathaway was playing an alcoholic and it was a monster movie. That honestly would have been enough to get me into the theater. It probably goes against writing

Film Review: Ghost in the Shell

“The shell belongs to them, but not your ghost.” This quote has been pinging around my head since I got home from a screening of what turned out to be an extremely disappointing film, Ghost in the Shell. The shell in this case, is the completely miscast Scarlett Johansson, her of the ivory white skin

Who Should Play the Green Ranger?

If you guys have seen the movie and stayed passed the credits, there was a scene where the teacher takes roll and the last name called was Tommy Oliver or Tomi Oliver (as the entire cast seems to want the Green Ranger to be a woman). With the news about the Power Rangers possibly getting

Film Review: Power Rangers

Taking the crooked with the straights. That’s the best way to describe what you’ll be doing when you purchase a ticket to go see the new Power Rangers film. More entertaining than the raggedy trailers let on, but taking itself far too serious to be truly fun, the movie settles for a weird middle ground

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